Charles Bayes Peacock
MilitaryAssigned to 335BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down 6-Sep-43 in B-17 42-30271 'Bomb Boogie'. Killed In Service - Evaded but actually died from hunger and exposure in Pyrenees Mountains at the end of Oct-43. Killed in Action (KIA)
Awards: AM, PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 6 September 1943
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Epinal American Cemetery
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Brookside, NJ | 22 May 1914 | Son of Stanley Graham and Marie [Bayes] Peacock. |
Enlisted |
Newark, NJ | 22 June 1942 | Newark, New Jersey |
Other Evaded (EVD) |
Sth France | 6 September 1943 - 30 October 1943 | Shot down 6 September 1943 in B-17 4230271 'Bomb Boogie'. Evaded [EVD]. |
Died |
Pyrenees, 25586, Lleida, Spain | 30 October 1943 | Killed In Service - EVD but actually died from hunger & exposure in Pyrenees Mountains end of October 43. |
Buried |
Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial | Tablets of the Missing Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial, Lorraine, France. | |
Based |
Horham | 6 September 1943 | Newark, New Jersey |
Revisions
ContributorAl_Skiff
Changes
Contributorjmoore43
Changes
Sources
Added a "-" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" for clarity.
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 545 / MACR 545, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop and Hey p. 167 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database